Join Mad Swirl on 06.06.12, starting at 8:00 sharp, when we will feature Dallas' premeire slam poet and author, Jason Carney! Get to the Longe early to enjoy the show and stick around to get yourself one of the 15-18 spots on our list... first come, first on the list! so get there early!
Come one, come all! Come to participate. Come to appreciate. Come to be a part of this collective creative love child we affectionately call Mad Swirl.
AND, as you may or may not know, every 1st Wednesday we get all giddy with the swirlin' madness. Now we got even more reason to get all googily-eyed! As promised, here is our list of featured poets for the rest of 2012. Ready? Drum roll please...
July 03 (1st TUESDAY): Roderick Richardson
August 01: Victory & Zach Shrotter
September 05: Danny Chibli
October 03: Joey & Darrell Cloudy
November 07: BA
December 05: Tamitha Curiel & Swirve
Mark your calendars now!
notes of gratitude to ALL the mad ones!
On 05.02.12 Mad Swirl kicked off May at Absinthe Lounge doing the open mic voodoo that what we do do. Our feature, Desmene Statum & Chris Zimmerly gave us a mad swirlingly improvisational set! The mad ones in the crowd at the lounge dug the musings and the fusings of these two poets. and then stuck around to strut their own mad stuff!
Starting us off and backing us up was the hep cats who are Swirve... the freshly shaven kind this time... Yes, alongside Chris Curiel and his magic trumpet who was swirling in our heads and Gerard Bendiks keeping the beat on skins, this time we were treated a 2nd drummer, Merek Gillett! Such beat-utiful jazzy madness. T'was quite a most spectacular feature to behold!
After the feature set, hosts Johnny O and gues co-host Chris Zimmerly got to callin' all the mad poets & a few other miscellaneous mad ones in the lounge to come & strut their mad stuff! And strut it they did! Mad swirlin' thanks to ALL the mad ones that came to participate, to appreciate...
Johnny O
Bear
Kate Taylor
Amano Pepper Tucker
Josh Weir
Gordon Hilgers
Paul Koneiki
Jay
Huge gratitudes to Mad Swirl's beautiful a/v girl, Denise Lumley.
And as always, thanks to the patron saint of the mad ones, Kevin, owner of Absinthe Lounge.
And finally we would like to thank ALL of you who freely shared their hand claps, finger-snaps, hoots and howls with all the mad ones who got up on this sacred mad swirlin' mic.
interested in performing?
Are you a mad poet, musician, actor, singer and/or performer? (circus freaks and Elvis impersonators always welcome) Do you live in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area? Then come-n-strut-yo-stuff.
Come one. Come all. Come to participate. Come to appreciate. Come to support your fellow mad ones.
The mic opens up around8:00 and closes when there's no one left standing.
Interested in performing? Then show up the night of and get on the list!
Got questions? E-mail us at openmic@madswirl.com for further details that may not be listed here.
Mad Swirl Open Mic at Absinthe Lounge. It's THE place to be on the first Wednesday of the month! (it's also THE place for 1st Wednesday's $2 drafts/$5 Mad Absinthes)
And please, by all means, FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THE WORD!
where's this madness take place?
Absinthe Lounge is located
in the SouthSide on Lamar building.
1409 South Lamar Street • Dallas, TX 75215 google map
